<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> i can somewhat relate to that</p><p>after building the umpteenth dependency from source, dealing with autotools is the horror you know, while "yet another niche build system to figure out how to deal with" is what makes you give up</p><p>that said autotools left scars on my soul and i'm not sure what to do about those</p>